"What are you doing with the sword?" Li Jianhong asked.
"I am the Cai family, and my name is Cai Yan..." Cai Yan said.
Li Jianhong frowned and said, "Who is your last name? I'm not interested, I just ask you what you do with swordsmanship."
Cai Yan replied: "My brother is an officer, I am afraid that he is in danger, and I want to learn something."
Li Jianhong remembered something and said to Duan Ling, "His brother is Cai Wen who knocked on our door in Xue Tian."
Duan Ling nodded, and Li Jianhong said to Cai Yan, "I will pay you back your brother's favor, but you have to remember that no matter how much you have learned, you can't use it against my son."
"We are good friends." Duan Ling said.
"Let's practice at the back." Li Jianhong said, "Pick up a wooden stick and make a sword first."
Cai Yan nodded and stood behind Duan Ling. Li Jianhong pretended that Cai Yan was not there, and still taught Duan Ling hand in hand. This time Duan Ling learned a little bit. .
Cai Yan nodded to Duan Ling to show his gratitude, Duan Ling smiled, a little embarrassed, after all, his father was too rude to Cai Yan, but Cai Yan didn't mind at all, instead he asked Duan Ling: "Your father's this What is the name of the set of swordsmanship?"
Duan Ling said blankly, "I don't know."
Cai Yan seemed to have a glimpse of hope and said: "Tomorrow I will also go get a sword, and I will see your sword."
Duan Ling handed it over to him. Cai Yan glanced at it. There were many gems on the scabbard. It was obviously very precious. The two young men could not see why. In the end, Cai Yan said, "Good sword."
Day after day, Duan Ling was in the middle of the war for the first time, and he had an inexplicable feeling. At first, people were panicked. However, the Yuan army began to besiege the city, and everyone gradually got used to it. Strict. The next day, Cai Yan went to the bookstore and stole a sword, intending to make do with it first, and wait for Li Jianhong with Duan Ling at night.
"This is my own swordsmanship."
When asked what the move was, Li Jianhong simply replied, and began to urge Duan Ling to learn the sword again.
A few days ago, Duan Ling's hands were often too sore to lift, and his shoulders were aching. Li Jianhong would give him a little massage with full energy. The next day, it was strange that Duan Ling woke up and found that he was healed.
Li Jianhong always came and left in a hurry. With Cai Yan by his side, Duan Ling was inconvenient to ask what his father was doing, but he was used to it, and the requirement had been reduced to seeing Li Jianhong once a day, and he was satisfied. In such a full month, some changes have taken place in Shangjing. Although the teenagers who are studying do not know what happened, they can find the changes in many details.
For example, the meal is not all-you-can-eat, and each person is limited to one bowl.
The lunch meal was changed to gruel.
There is no meat for dinner, only vegetables.
The Yuan army besieged the city in January, and the city began to face the crisis of running out of food.
When Li Jianhong came back, he would bring a packet of barbecue and throw it to Duan Ling, saying, "Eat it."
So Duan Ling sat down to eat first, and occasionally distributed points to Cai Yan, while Li Jianhong waited and asked him what he had learned and read today.
The war was getting more and more urgent day by day, and the Shangjing city began to feel restless again. This day was the day to take him home. However, the soldiers were in chaos.
It's just because there are arrows shot from outside the city right now in three places, the north gate is the safest, even if the parents are slobbering, the sacrifice is an amiable word. Useless.
At dusk, the first autumn rain fell in Beijing, and there was only gruel for dinner. The window bars of the fence were crowded with people, and they handed food to the inside. Most of them were cakes with bacon, because officials and wealthy businessmen had no meat anymore. They had money and couldn't buy meat, only the rice and noodles they hoarded on weekdays. with dried bacon.
Cai Yan and Duan Ling drank a bowl of porridge, ate some pickles, and stared down the corridor hungry, but Cai Wen never came.
Every time he heard the sound of horses' hooves, Cai Yan walked out in the rain and looked behind the window bar. When he realized that it was not Cai Wen, he had to give up his seat to other students. After several rounds of repetition, Cai Yan has turned from hope to disappointment, and anger again.
"I went back to sleep." Cai Yan said, "Your father will come and call me later."
Duan Ling wanted to comfort Cai Yan a few words, but Cai Yan was embarrassed and pale, and went back and lay down directly. Duan Ling turned around in front of the corridor a few times, and half an hour later, it was already dark, and someone behind the wall was carrying a lantern and said, "Cai Yan! Cai Yan!"
Duan Ling hurriedly ran over and said, "Wait! I'll go get him up right now."
The man outside was not Cai Wen, but a soldier from the Patrol Division. He said to Duan Ling, "General Cai asked me to bring some food to his younger brother. Please pass it on for you. He can't come tonight."
Duan Ling took a paper package with bacon in it and the official seal of the Patrol Division on the paper package. It was obviously a saved ration, so he had to go back and shake Cai Yan to wake up, saying, "Cai Yan, your brother is here. "
Cai Yan had a fever, and with a groan, Duan Ling hurriedly tried his forehead.
"Where is he?" Cai Yan said weakly, "Is he still alive?"
Duan Ling replied: "He is very good, he asked you to eat more, and said he would come to see you another day."
Cai Yan nodded reluctantly, as if he knew that Cai Wen was still alive, nothing else mattered. After a while, he turned to Duan Ling and said, "Is he going to go out of town to fight?"
Duan Ling took Cai Yan's pulse to diagnose him, shook his head, and said, "I don't know, I'll go get you some medicine later, you lie down first."
Duan Ling came out of the backyard, the rain was dripping, and Shangjing was dead silent tonight.
Someone outside whistled at him, melodious and melodious, like a bird with a long tail, and then stopped abruptly.
Duan Ling laughed and ran out quickly. In the backyard, a military general walked in quickly, smiled and hugged Duan Ling by the waist, and carried him into the corridor.
Today's Li Jianhong is dressed in armor, his aura is full, his shirt made of shiny iron pieces is like dragon scales, he wears a unicorn battle helmet on his head, and the red ying is tied around his chin. He holds the bronze epee He put his hands on the ground, turned around, stretched his legs, and sat side by side with Duan Ling in the corridor.
"Wow!"
"Shh..."
"What is this?" Duan Ling first touched his father's armor, and then took his hand curiously.
"This is the gauntlet." Li Jianhong explained, took it off and showed it to him, Duan Ling went to touch his helmet again, Li Jianhong said, "Don't take it off, just look at it like this, it's better to take it off than to wear it."
"What about this?" Duan Ling asked curiously.
"Boots." Li Jianhong said with a smile.
"Why are there iron thorns?" Duan Ling observed the general's armor up close for the first time, and was almost overwhelmed by the majestic father wrapped in the iron armor.
"Spurs." Li Jianhong replied, "When fighting against a horse, it is used to stab the enemy's war horse."
"Are you going to fight?" Duan Ling asked, "Would you be able to move with such heavy armor?"
Li Jianhong stepped on the ground with his left foot, jumped up, danced a few halberds in the courtyard, then turned back and sat cross-legged on the ground.
Li Jianhong took out a paper bag, handed it to Duan Ling, and said, "Eat, I won't practice swords today."
Inside was neatly sliced roast pork. Duan Ling devoured it and fed Li Jianhong some more. Li Jianhong said, "I've had a drink, and I've eaten all the delicacies from the mountains and seas. I waited for a month and a half. , go out of the city today and get rid of those barbarians."
Duan Ling was a little worried, Li Jianhong patted his head and said seriously: "Dad taught you swordsmanship for a month and a half, so that this day, do you remember the swordsmanship?"
Duan Ling nodded and said, "Am I fighting with you? Go!"
Li Jianhong put his hand on his forehead, crying and laughing: "Your Majesty, what do you think? It's not time for the expedition!"
Duan Ling said, "Do father and son soldiers have armor?"
Li Jianhong pointed his finger at Duan Ling and said, "I'm going out of the city tonight, not you. From the beginning of the day, I and Yelu Dashi split up and went to raid the camp to burn food and grass, understand?"
"Then what do I do?" Duan Ling asked blankly.
Li Jianhong said seriously: "I'm out of the city to attack the camp, and there will be no one to watch your side. If something happens... Although the possibility of something happening is very small, you must not take it lightly.
"Then what?" Duan Ling nodded.
Li Jianhong said, "Then you take this sword of Kublai Khan..."
Duan Ling: "Where?"
Li Jianhong: "..."
Li Jianhong's expression was unbearable, and he tapped Duan Ling's saber with a "no way to hold you" expression.
"Kubi Khan gave it to Wo Kuotai, your father and I grabbed it from Wo Kuotai on the first day." Li Jianhong said, "That's it."
"Oh." Duan Ling nodded.
Li Jianhong also instructed: "Whoever provokes you, you should weigh it. If you can cut it, cut it. If you can't cut it, run away. Hide, you know?"
Duan Ling asked, "Will something happen to the Biyong Pavilion?"
Li Jianhong said: "It shouldn't be, just in case, no matter what happens, you can't be brave, father can't take you to attack the camp, my son, you must save your life, you're going to die, Dad is no longer alive."
"Okay...Okay." Duan Ling understood. Although Li Jianhong was confident of retreating tonight, he was not sure whether the Yuan people would turn back the army before they were defeated and could not stand by his son's side, so he taught him for a month and a half. The three-legged cat swordsmanship, now learned and sold, is impossible to kill the Quartet, suddenly draw the sword when danger comes, and take advantage of the enemy to underestimate the enemy for a moment, it is still possible to escape.
Li Jianhong repeatedly instructed countless times, such as what to do if the north gate was lost and the Yuan army came in, what to do if there was a fire, what to do if a stray arrow came, what to do if a catapult was thrown in, and the city wall collapsed What should I do... I kept checking with Duan Ling again and again until I thought he really remembered it. Then I drew a map and planned an escape route for him. Hearing that, Duan Ling almost thought that the Yuan people had all killed at the entrance of the Biyong Pavilion. , just wait for an order to accompany him to start the exercise.
"How likely is it that they will be called in?" Duan Ling asked nervously.
"Less than 10%." Li Jianhong urged, "But even if there is a slight chance, it must not be taken lightly."
Duan Ling: "..."
Li Jianhong: "If you have three strengths and two weaknesses..."
"You're not alive either."
When Duan Ling heard it for the first time, he was very moved. He was turned over and over again by the wheel of the car countless times, and he was completely numb.
"Yes." Li Jianhong said, "That's what I said, high-five to swear that I will live."
Duan Ling and Li Jianhong high-five, Li Jianhong said, "Dad has gone to war, he will come back at dawn, and he will pick you up tomorrow."
Duan Ling suddenly hugged Li Jianhong's neck, Li Jianhong smiled and said, "It's thirteen years old, don't grind it."
Only then did Duan Ling let go of Li Jianhong. Li Jianhong hurried out of the backyard and got on his horse. Duan Ling hurriedly climbed up from the fence and clawed it on the fence. Seeing that Li Jianhong was riding a thousand miles to the sky, he was still tied behind the saddle. Holding the sword box, he threw the halberd behind his back, and said to Duan Ling: "Come down, be careful you fall."
"Be careful!" Duan Ling said.
Li Jianhong put the horse's belly between his legs, leaned towards Duan Ling, raised his foot, kept his balance, and kissed Duan Ling's forehead, Duan Ling also kissed his face, and then Li Jianhong Jianhong shook the reins and shouted, "Drive!" Then he turned into a gust of wind and disappeared at the end of the back street.